# Do you say "mid-drift"? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 14, 2007, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-say-mid-drift/404001 "2007-05-14T05:15:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![thirdwarning](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecccb3/32.png) [@thirdwarning](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thirdwarning)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2007, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-say-mid-drift/404001/41 "2007-05-15T04:25:57Z")
Yeah, you can’t make them come true expos facto. Courtesy of the publisher of the local paper ---
**Author:** ![Chessic\_Sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7c8e57/32.png) [@Chessic\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chessic_Sense)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2007, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-say-mid-drift/404001/42 "2007-05-15T05:13:23Z")
I hate it when someone “itches” an itch. Every time the girlfriend asks me to “itch” her, I start lightly running some string of hair over her skin, then ask if I should scratch the itch. “zipper your jacket.” I always go "what do sailors do? Sail. What do builders do? Build. What do zippers do? … … " “nip it in the butt”. How about the doubly erroneous “real good”? “This was a real good performance!” “Yeah, sure beats a fictional, evil performance.” “He didn’t do nothing.” “Intensive purposes.” “The [object] is broke” “It comes natural” Statements like “I wonder…” or “Guess what” that end w/ question marks. I think it’s fine to drop articles or “to be”. I say “Go to college.” Correct me if I’m wrong but don’t British people say “Go to hospital” instead of “the hospital”? I heard that in a movie yesterday. “Needs washed” is fine by me, as is “step foot” ---
**Author:** ![Dead\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9fc29f/32.png) [@Dead\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dead_Cat)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2007, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-say-mid-drift/404001/43 "2007-05-15T13:41:18Z")
[QUOTE=IntelSoldier] II think it’s fine to drop articles or “to be”. I say “Go to college.” Correct me if I’m wrong but don’t British people say “Go to hospital” instead of “the hospital”? I heard that in a movie yesterday. [/QUOTE] No correction necessary. We still go to the Post Office, though. Interesting, I wonder why the difference (now there’s an ugly piece of phrasing, IMO). ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2007, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-say-mid-drift/404001/44 "2007-05-15T13:44:18Z")
[QUOTE=NinetyWt] The answer? “Dotson, just like the dog”. Do WHAT? Err, that’s Dachshund. It’s not spelled OR pronounced the same. Sheesh. [/QUOTE] My co-worker mentioned the “dashhound” and I said I had never heard of that breed. :smack: It was the first time I had heard that pronunciation. Another New England thing: “I got an A on the test.” “So didn’t your friend Bob.” Meaning Bob got an A as well. ::boggle ---
**Author:** ![Paintcharge](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/paintcharge/32/7946_2.png) [@Paintcharge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paintcharge)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2007, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-say-mid-drift/404001/45 "2007-05-15T14:05:16Z")
Another vote for “droors” here, although I agree that the spelling shouldn’t change. You draw them out, therefore they are drawers. Butt-naked (nekkid?) makes perfect sense to me too. Your butt is naked in order to be buck-naked. However the use of “try **and** do” such and such drives me up the wall. Is it optimism; these people think that by simply trying it will be accomplished? I try **to** do such and such. ---
**Author:** ![awldune](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c77e96/32.png) [@awldune](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/awldune)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2007, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-say-mid-drift/404001/46 "2007-05-15T14:12:57Z")
Could the OP be hearing “Midriffed?” Seems like a logical verb formation, to parallel “short-sleeved”, etc. [QUOTE=IntelSoldier] How about the doubly erroneous “real good”? “This was a real good performance!” “Yeah, sure beats a fictional, evil performance.” [/QUOTE] I disagree with your judgement WRT ‘real’, but I don’t actually understand your objection to ‘good’ in this context. Are you saying that ‘very good performance’ is incorrect? ---
**Author:** ![Tastes\_of\_Chocolate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tastes_of_chocolate/32/3232_2.png) [@Tastes\_of\_Chocolate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tastes_of_Chocolate)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2007, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-say-mid-drift/404001/47 "2007-05-15T17:23:37Z")
[QUOTE=IntelSoldier] I say “Go to college.” Correct me if I’m wrong but don’t British people say “Go to hospital” instead of “the hospital”? I heard that in a movie yesterday. [/QUOTE] I was pondering this one. In the US, I go to college, I go to school. I go to church. I go to THE store. I go to THE office. I go to work. In cases where “the” has been dropped, it’s an activity I’m referring to, not a location. The location and the activity just happen to have the same name. I know, I know. College isn’t a verb, but think about how it’s being used. What do you do? I go to college. What do you do in Sunday? I go to church. What do I do on Monday? I go to work. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-say-mid-drift/404001.md?page=2)